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THE FLOIilST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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than to increase the stock, -which will prevent its being cultivated so extensively 
as it ought to be, for some years to come. 
ViCTOEY (Addis).—Skin smooth ; colour greenish-white ; berry long, plump, 
and well-formed, with smooth, even surface. It makes strong wood, bears freely, 
and forms a spreading bush. This is a seedling, exhibited by Mr. George Addis, 
of Gospel End, near Dudley, at the National Gooseberry Show, Manchester, on 
August C, 1870, and to which was awarded the first prize for the best White 
Seedling, weighing 28 dwt. 21 gr. It was let out on October 15, 1870, in 
twenty-one lots, at 8s. 6d. per lot. This variety is a very promising white 
berry, not at present in general cultivation.— Charles Leicester, Crompton 
Hoad^ Macclesfield. 
NEW BEDDING CALCEOLARIAS. 
^NE would think it would be scarcely possible to obtain a yellow-flowered 
Calceolaria adapted for bedding purposes that could be regarded as a beat 
on the old C. aiirea fioribunda.^ and yet this is found in Golden Gem^ a 
variety that has gained a great reputation in the North, because so hardy, 
free, floriferous, and so little affected by the weather. It has a pure shrubby 
habit, is very compact in growth, and the flowers are of a clear golden hue. In 
Princess Louise we get the colour of the old C. amplexicaulis^ clear sulphur-yellow, 
combined with a dwarf, branching, free-blooming habit. Add to these aurea 
doribunda^ and we have before us the three best yellow bedding Calceolarias. 
Of amber-coloured flowers. Beauty of Herts stands pre-eminent; it has a 
dense, robust, shrubby growth, blooms with great freedom, and the flowers are 
borne on stiff foot-stalks. Another fine variety is Amahilis.^ the colour pleasing 
buff, shaded with brown crimson ; this stands wonderfully well in the very 
bitterest weather, and flowers with great freedom and continuity. Princess 
Alexandra.^ orange-buff, is a new variety that does not appear to equal either of 
the foregoing, but this is a statement that will admit of difference of opinion. 
Of crimson-flowered varieties there are several candidates for favour. 
Crimson Dwarf has flowers of a bright-shaded crimson hue, has a dense compact 
habit, is very free, and stands well. Pluto has dark crimson flowers produced 
in very large dense trusses, is an excellent grower, making a most effective bed, 
and continuing gay all through the summer. These two stand out from all the 
rest, because of their capacity to stand exposure, many of the high-coloured 
varieties being very defective in constitutional vigour, partaking, as they do, so 
largely of the blood of the Herbaceous varieties.—R. Dean, Ealing. 
LEICESTER RED CELERY. 
^^EICESTER RED CELERY is synonymous with Major Clarke’s Solid Red. 
It is very tantalising to have an article of this kind floating about the 
country under two names,—a source of confusion to the inexperienced, but 
no case can be more decided than the present. 
